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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
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Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
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Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Cephalopoda
Subclassis: Nautiloidea
Ordo: Nautilida
SubOrdo: Nautilina
Superfamilia: Nautilitaceae

Familia: Nautilidae
Genus: Allonautilus
Species: A. perforatus – A. scrobiculatus
Name

Allonautilus Ward & Saunders, 1997
References

Ward, Peter D. & Saunders, W. Bruce (1997); "Allonautilus: A New Genus of Living Nautiloid Cephalopod and Its Bearing on Phylogeny of the Nautilida" Journal of Paleontology 71(6):1054-1064

Vernacular names
English: Allonautilus

The genus Allonautilus contains two species of nautiluses, which have a significantly different morphology from those placed in the sister taxon Nautilus.[1] Allonautilus is now thought to be a descendant of Nautilus, rendering the latter genus paraphyletic.

Live individuals of the genus have only been collected in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. Little is known about their biology because they live in deep waters,[2] whereas the better-understood genus Nautilus lives closer to the surface.

The entire family Nautilidae, including all species in the genus Nautilus and Allonautilus, was listed on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).[3]
Species

Image Scientific name Common name Distribution
Allonautilus perforatus Bali
chambered nautilus
Bali
Papua New Guinea
Allonautilus scrobiculatus Crusty nautilus Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands

References

Ward, P.D. & W.B. Saunders 1997. Allonautilus: a new genus of living nautiloid cephalopod and its bearing on phylogeny of the Nautilida. Journal of Paleontology 71(6): 1054–1064.
Groth, J. G., et al. (2015). The mitochondrial genome of Allonautilus (Mollusca: Cephalopoda): Base composition, noncoding-region variation, and phylogenetic divergence. American Museum Novitates 3834 1-18.
"Checklist of CITES species". Archived from the original on 2013-11-15.

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